Medical Equipment Management

"This book is excellent. It is easy to read and a great tool for clinical engineers, biomedical engineers, and every healthcare provider who is involved in the management of medical equipment. This book was very well needed by managers but also by those who are studying clinical engineering. Vendor organizations and manufacturers of medical devices should also read this book and understand how healthcare organizations operate."
—Jean Ngoie, C.Eng., Regional Manager Biomedical Engineering, Niagara Health System, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

"This book contains precisely the information needed by clinical engineers, either studying in academia or working in the healthcare environment. It provides all the knowledge to develop most of the activities today under the responsibility of a clinical engineering group. What most caught my attention is that it teaches not only WHAT must be done to develop such activities but also gives you hints on HOW they should be developed."
—Saide Jorge Calil, MSc, PhD, Chairman of the Clinical Engineering Division, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

"An excellent timely book that details the underlying principles required for the interesting, exciting, and important art and science of medical equipment management.
Covering the breadth and depth of the discipline, the book proceeds from an introduction to the field and its underlying principles before detailed examinations of the key aspects: the equipment lifecycle, risk regulation and governance, approaches to managing equipment, purchase and replacement, evaluation, staff training, assessing maintenance requirements and contract management, and how to manage and investigate incidents when problems occur with medical devices. How to support innovation and R&D and the necessary associated governance considerations are covered, recognising that innovation involves supporting development of novel equipment, and also the application of equipment in novel ways, including ways not envisaged by the original maker. Equipment disposal is often ignored and a chapter devoted to this important topic discusses the underlying principles and regulations, including environmental considerations. The final chapter deals with performance monitoring, benchmarking, and performance indicators—important tools to guide professionals in assessing their work and that of the team. The penultimate chapter guides professionals to sources of information, including professional societies, that will support them performing and developing their work.
Who will benefit from this book? Clearly those managing medical equipment from day-to-day, both leaders and practitioners, will benefit. It will guide and instruct students. It is also important for those who manage and direct those involved in medical equipment management. … important for senior healthcare managers, medical and nursing directors, chief executives, and board members with responsibility for medical equipment. It will also benefit clinical professionals who interact with medical equipment managers."
— John N. Amoore, PhD, Department of Medical Physics, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, Scotland

"This book is excellent. It is easy to read and a great tool for clinical engineers, biomedical engineers, and every healthcare provider who is involved in the management of medical equipment. This book was very well needed by managers but also by those who are studying clinical engineering. Vendor organizations and manufacturers of medical devices should also read this book and understand how healthcare organizations operate."
—Jean Ngoie, C.Eng., Regional Manager Biomedical Engineering, Niagara Health System, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

"This book contains precisely the information needed by clinical engineers, either studying in academia or working in the healthcare environment. It provides all the knowledge to develop most of the activities today under the responsibility of a clinical engineering group. What most caught my attention is that it teaches not only WHAT must be done to develop such activities but also gives you hints on HOW they should be developed."
—Saide Jorge Calil, MSc, PhD, Chairman of the Clinical Engineering Division, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

"An excellent timely book that details the underlying principles required for the interesting, exciting, and important art and science of medical equipment management.
Covering the breadth and depth of the discipline, the book proceeds from an introduction to the field and its underlying principles before detailed examinations of the key aspects: the equipment lifecycle, risk regulation and governance, approaches to managing equipment, purchase and replacement, evaluation, staff training, assessing maintenance requirements and contract management, and how to manage and investigate incidents when problems occur with medical devices. How to support innovation and R&D and the necessary associated governance considerations are covered, recognising that innovation involves supporting development of novel equipment, and also the application of equipment in novel ways, including ways not envisaged by the original maker. Equipment disposal is often ignored and a chapter devoted to this important topic discusses the underlying principles and regulations, including environmental considerations. The final chapter deals with performance monitoring, benchmarking, and performance indicators—important tools to guide professionals in assessing their work and that of the team. The penultimate chapter guides professionals to sources of information, including professional societies, that will support them performing and developing their work.
Who will benefit from this book? Clearly those managing medical equipment from day-to-day, both leaders and practitioners, will benefit. It will guide and instruct students. It is also important for those who manage and direct those involved in medical equipment management. … important for senior healthcare managers, medical and nursing directors, chief executives, and board members with responsibility for medical equipment. It will also benefit clinical professionals who interact with medical equipment managers."
— John N. Amoore, PhD, Department of Medical Physics, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, Scotland

"Over the years the textbook "Medical Equipment Management" has become an important resource for both clinical engineers and medical physicists. Equipment management however is a key topic not only when it comes to medical equipment’s physical and technical aspects, but also healthcare management. Therefore the book turns out to be an important resource of information and practical guidance for hospital managers, healthcare administrators, academic departments chairs, etc.

The book is based on the lecturing of the module "Management of Medical Equipment" at the MSc Medical Engineering and Physics at King’s College London, UK – a unique module introduced in 2003 and delivered to this day. The authors, who have introduced the content of this module, have worked on the book from 2009 to 2013 and have structured the book in an unusual and very effective way. The book includes sections, allowing the user to access various moment of the Medical Equipment Life Cycle. Most of the sections include examples of three different equipment: small, medium, large (syringe driver, Ultrasound scanner; X-ray equipment). This practical approach makes the book very usable for various specialists dealing with medical equipment. Since 2014, the knowledge from the book has been applied by S Tabakov in the curriculum of the ICTP College on Medical Physics. Later the book structure and approach have been used in the MSc in Advanced Medical Physics of the ICTP and the University of Trieste and in various medical physics-related lectures at the Medical University of Plovdiv.

To our knowledge elements of the book are used also in medical physics/engineering educational courses in various countries Many examples in the book are based on the experience and legislation of the UK and the European Union, but the authors have aimed the content to be of use in various countries. Special focus is given on applicability in LMICs where access to such or similar guidance material may be quite limited and quite often Departments for Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering do not exist. As seen from the Content the book covers the specific parts of Medical Equipment Management and gives excellent practical advice. Thus, activities as: Preparing specifications; Understanding tenders and purchase of equipment; Dealing with Service Contracts; Training staff; Investigating incidents; Improving performance; Disposing equipment, etc. are part of the activities of medical physicists in many countries. The book can find its place and value in medical physics or engineering departments as well as healthcare management & decision makers globally."

• Dr. Magdalena Stoeva, Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and Secretary General of the IOMP, in MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.10, No.2, 2022
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